Piers Morgan recently announced he has tested negative for Covid-19 and Lord Alan Sugar has hit out at the Good Morning Britain host for 'depriving' essenial key workers - such as doctors and nurses- of tests and branded him a 'hypocrite'

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Lord Alan Sugar, 73, has hit out at Piers Morgan after the GMB host shared on Twitter that he was tested for coronavirus as he is an essential key worker.

Piers, 55, was concerned that he had contracted the deadly bug after coming down with symptoms but he has tested negative for Covid-19 and is soon set to return to his job hosting morning show Good Morning Britain.

Government guidelines state that essential key workers such as front line health workers and social care staff - including journalists and broadcasters who are providing public service broadcasting - are entitled to be tested at test points.

After Piers announced that he has the all-clear and that he was "entitled" to a test as he is an "essential key worker" Lord Sugar hit out at the controversial presenter for not being an essential worker and branded him a "hypocrite" who has "deprived" others of being able to be tested.

Lord Alan Sugar, 73, has hit out at Piers Morgan after the GMB host shared on Twitter that he was tested for coronavirus as he is an essential key worker (Image: BBC)

The Apprentice star pointed out that he was happy to hear that Piers did not have the deadly bug but shared that another presenter could step in for Piers if he was unwell and that he is "certainly not essential."

Following Piers' tweet announcing about being tested and healthy, Lord Sugar re-tweeted the message and asked why the outspoken ITV face was classed as essential.

The tweet read: "RT @piersmorgan My COVID-19 test was negative. I was entitled to do so as a Govt-designated essential worker. I'll be back on @GMB as soon as my doctor advises I'm OK to return to work. SINCERELY PLEASED TO HEAR YOU ARE NEGATIVE. HOWEVER WHY ARE YOU A GOVT ESSENTIAL WORKER ?"

Piers was concerned that he had contracted the bug after coming down with symptoms but he has tested negative for Covid-19 and is soon set to return to his job hosting morning show Good Morning Britain (Image: Getty Images for BAFTA LA)

Alan then micro-blogged again as he lashed out: "Have I missed something ? Like the Govn "Masochist bill". According to @piersmorgan he is a Govn- designated essential worker. Does he mean the Govn see him essential to sl*g them off every day. There are other presenters to step in @gmb he is certainly not essential."

Continuing to fume and musing at how Piers would act if the shoe was on the other foot, Alan then tweeted again: ". @piersmorgan not an Govn-designated essential worker. There're Nurses, Doctors, Police, Army,train and truck drivers.

"He deprived a real essential workers from a test.If this was Hugh Grant, Meghan or other of his enemies like me.

"He would be howling from the rooftops. HYPOCRITE"

After Piers announced that he has the all-clear and that he was "entitled" to a test as he is an "essential key worker" Lord Sugar hit out at the controversial presenter for not being an essential worker (Image: Twitter)

The businessman called branded Piers a "hypocrite" who has "deprived" others of being able to be tested (Image: Twitter)

Lord Sugar then told his 5.3 million followers: "Frankly @piersmorgan has shot himself in the foot. He would have done better saying nothing and not mention testing. He has opened a can of worms for people to have a go at him. However good news he tested negative."

On Sunday former newspaper editor Piers told fans he'd have to take a step back from GMB after suffering mild Covid-19 symptoms and was awaiting the result of a test.

He tweeted: "UPDATE: On medical advice, and out of an abundance of caution for a mild symptom that arose in past 48hrs...

"I've had a test for COVID-19 and so won’t be working on @GMB until I get the result back, which should be tomorrow."

On Sunday former newspaper editor Piers told fans he'd have to take a step back from GMB after suffering mild Covid-19 symptoms and was awaiting the result of a test (Image: ITV)

Piers didn't go into what symptoms he had experienced, but did reveal he was going by medical advice.

Yesterday he then announced that his results were negative and that he soon will be returning to work.

During Piers' time off TV presenter Ben Shepard stood in for him and anchored the ITV news show with Susanna Ried.